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High Speed Internet access
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Overview

Available at sites in a majority of towns and cities across the UK, our high-speed Internet access delivers a fast, cost-effective alternative to traditional leased lines.

By using high speed technology to link your network to the Internet, we offer you fast, permanent, unmetered connection speeds, ranging from 2Mbps to 100Mbps. A variety of access methods act as a direct link from your network to a THUS point of presence (PoP) on the Internet, providing you with the reliable connections your business needs.

Benefits
Available at sites in most towns and cities across the UK.
Take advantage of e-commerce, extranets, cross-site intranets and applications such as voice and video over a converged network.
Easy upgrade path as your business needs grow.
Single Ethernet interface for simple system management.
Inherent reliability and five-hour fix time – keeping you connected and in business.
Service level agreement offers 99.95% availability.
Pricing is based on your site geography, allowing for metropolitan, regional and national solutions.
You can manage your own hosted services, helping you improve business productivity.
Technical Information

Connections compared:

  2Mbps
and greater bandwidth
Ethernet
interfaces
Router / modem needed
Ethernet Yes Yes No
Broadband No No
(Yes with appropriate
CPE such as router)
Yes
Leased Line Yes No
(Yes with appropriate
CPE such as router)
Yes
Dial-up No No
(Yes with appropriate
CPE such as router)
Yes

Bandwidth and protocols:

Dedicated bandwidth available from 4Mbps to 155Mbps.
Fixed bandwidth of 4, 6 or 8Mbps using multi-link frame relay.
Fixed bandwidth of 34, 45 or 155Mbps on ATM.
Fixed bandwidth of 10/100Mbps or 1000Mbps on Ethernet.
Rate-limited bandwidth on the above Ethernet or ATM.
Burstable bandwidth on ATM.
Contended bandwidth (10:1) available on 10Mbps Ethernet delivery.

Internet Service Features:

Permanent Internet connection*.

Registration or re-delegation of up to three domain names.

Registration of one or more blocks of IP addresses to RIPE guidelines.
Set-up of DNS and mail services with SMTP email addresses.
Optional MailDefender subscription gives managed anti-spam and two-way anti-virus protection for email users
Unrestricted IP traffic, 24 hours a day*.
24-hour technical support and access line monitoring as standard.

* Subject to downtime, outages and maintenance
Requirements

Network and IP information

Network and IP information are required when requesting IP addresses. This is a stipulation of RIPE, the body that governs IP allocation. If you require assistance when requesting IP addresses, our sales staff will be happy to help.
Support

24/7 dedicated support

Five-hour fix time in the unlikely event of service failure

Competitive provisioning times
Online bandwidth utilisation reports available
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